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Show unset. The difficulty Attendant upon the plan is that there is no present day Solomon to make a wise choice as to who Is to be ejected. Yet the fact remains that bad citizens are known, and that' about all that can be done with them is to put them away for carrying a concealed weapon or violating the income tax laws. Though not In accordance with due process of law perhaps, most localities would be a happier place, for a few months at least, If the old Vigilantes were given way for a time, letting the lawyers law-yers and the courts fight It out later, while the law-abiding body politic was enjoying a temporary tempor-ary peace and trnquillty. Dramtlsts from the Elizabethan Elizabeth-an period to the hour of the modern mod-ern scenario writer '. have used to good effect the expedient of having hav-ing a play within a play. Spain proposes an analogous variant In that a Quiet loving portion of Chat country has started a revolt against the war. That sounds a trifle Inconsistent, but if It Is necessary that men contend at arms, a war to put down a war is not so bad a thing, and those who must fight somebody, in order or-der to arrive at the end of a perfect per-fect day, might be worse occupied. occu-pied. X scientist traces a lost race in Alaska. So far as being "lost" is concerned there are many advantages.' ad-vantages.' There are no rows a-bout a-bout who is responsible for ths bent fender, and nothing has to be done If the current fails right In the middle of the perusal of the evening paper. However, Tennyson Ten-nyson was right when he said that a century of Europe was better than a cycle of Cathay, and until human nature changes, or things get a great deal worse than they are now, the majority of mankind will be content to be alive, and will not begrudge lost races the fun tha tcomee from being "lost". Kansas has a law suit In which a woman 84 years old is charged with running around with other men. Ponce de Leon clearly made a mistake In searching for the fountain of eternal youth In Florida. CURRENT ; COMMENT The veterans of the World War two hundred thousand strong parade In New York City. It was not so long ago that the survivors survi-vors of the Civil War presented a similar front. Now they are reduced re-duced to a tew old gentlemen riding la carriages. There was a day when in the Grand Army of the Republlo and Its corresponding correspond-ing organization in the South could get about anything they wanted, for the asking, but now all that the survivors of the War between the states can hope for Is a quiet seat in the shade, granted as a matter of courtesy and not as a matter of right. If the (American 'Legion has plans for the future, It had better get busy at once. It was able to survive sur-vive German cannon but no power pow-er can save Its ranks from being thinned in the march of time. The child Is born who will look upon the last tottering survivor of th World War. The Legion will do well to make its Influence Influ-ence felt for good before all that Is left to remind one of the World War are the stones that mark the places where Its soldiers sol-diers fought. Over In Russia, they have disposed dis-posed of political foes by what has become to be known , popularly popu-larly as "purge", twenty-olne men having been quieted at once by a firing squad. Purges are out of fashion In the more highly civilized communities, but at times a person wonders whether or not the old time purge, even though not always ending with the noose, was not a good thing for the general public- after all. Many a California town of the 40 's settled down to a period of great quiet sifter posting a notice no-tice that specified individuals were to be out of the village by |